Secunia Security Advisory - Luigi Auriemma has reported two vulnerabilities in Race Driver, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Race Driver Format String and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16091
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/16091/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Race Driver 1.x
https://secunia.com/product/5406/
DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported two vulnerabilities in Race Driver, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
A format string error and a boundary error in the game's IRC public
chat interface and the game's Server Browser can be exploited by
sending specially crafted input to the public chat IRC server or by
hosting a game with format specifiers in its name.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 1.20 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Play multiplayer games on trusted networks only.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/rdrum-adv.txt
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